Pallidotomy with the Gamma Knife: A positive experience

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 218-228

  Young, R F ^a   Vermeulen, S ^a   Posewitz, A ^a   Shumway Cook, A ^a  

^a NORTHWEST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyskinesia; Gamma pallidotomy; Pallidotomy; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; LEVODOPA;

BRADYKINESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSKINESIA; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIDOTOMY; PARKINSON DISEASE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA RAYS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIO WAVES; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031785785     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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